"I will not adopt
that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading
by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which
they are themselves adding -- joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing
the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be
read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to
turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas! if the heroine of one novel be
not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection
and regard?"